unpack archive files
- Links:
documentation: http://ponty.github.com/pyunpack
- Features:
unpack archive files without password
very simple interface
command line interface and library
supported python versions: 2.6, 2.7
tested only on linux
- back-ends:
zipfile: included in Python
patool: It relies on helper applications to handle those archive formats (for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives). Supported formats: 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ALZIP (.alz), AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2), CAB (.cab), compress (.Z), CPIO (.cpio), DEB (.deb), DMS (.dms), GZIP (.gz), LRZIP (.lrz), LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm), RAR (.rar), RZIP (.rz), TAR (.tar), XZ (.xz), ZIP (.zip, .jar) and ZOO (.zoo)
Background
patool is called by pyunpack using its command line interface. If Patool is not installed then only zip format can be unpacked using the internal python zipfile library.
Basic usage
>>> from pyunpack import Archive
>>> Archive('a.zip').extractall('/path/to')
or on console:
python -m pyunpack.cli a.zip /path/to
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Installation
General
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install pyunpack #optional sudo pip install http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/patool/0.17/patool-0.17.tar.gz sudo pip install entrypoint2 # for cli.py sudo apt-get install unzip unrar p7zip-full
Uninstall
# as root pip uninstall pyunpack
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